NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1190MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +81%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

768

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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